I’ve spent more mornings than I can count fiddling with tubs of ragworm, trying to keep them lively and easy to hook when the tide finally turns. Ragworm are brilliant bait — juicy, tough on a hook and irresistible to many shore species — but they don’t stick around in top condition for...
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When the tide flips and the run of fish lasts only an hour, every second...
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I started using a castable fishfinder a few seasons ago to solve a simple...
How-To Guides
Winter cod in shallow kelp bays are a special kind of fight: powerful takes in...
How-To Guides
Marina lights are one of those relentless, honest attractors: they concentrate...
Winter cod in shallow kelp bays are a special kind of fight: powerful takes in tight water, sudden runs through weed and rocks, and that stubborn way they hug structure. Over the years I’ve learned that a properly built microchum slick will hold a...
Marina lights are one of those relentless, honest attractors: they concentrate prawns, small fry and baby sandeels right where concrete meets water. Over the years I've found that bass feeding under pontoon and quay lights behave differently to fish...
I used to curse pebble spits. Nothing fills you with more quiet frustration than watching your bait or lure skitter across tumbling cobbles, the tip of your rod twitching with meaningless knocks while real takes go missed in the muddle. For months I...
On Fishing In Wales Co I’m always looking for simple, repeatable ways to find fish without relying on luck. One method that’s become a staple of my shore approach combines old-school observation — gull behaviour and foam lines — with a...
Fishing kelp banks for cod at night is one of my favourite challenges — the tide smells different, the headlamp cuts through the darkness and every bite feels earned. Deadbait is my go-to when the water cools and cod move onto the weed to feed....
I’ve spent more early mornings than I can count sitting on slick rocks in Welsh harbours, watching sleek mackerel blitz the surface and nicking my lures before the pollack even show interest. Over the years I’ve developed a feathered teaser rig...
I’d been fighting kite-tailing for months on exposed pebble spits before I finally fixed it by switching to a 20g sliding bomb and a 50lb fluorocarbon leader. It felt like one of those small, stubborn problems that becomes huge the more you...
I walked the pontoon at low tide the first time I noticed how lights change everything. Under marina lamps the estuary becomes a corridor of silhouettes and suspended life — fry and shrimps schooling in the glow, small crabs skittering along...
I fish a lot of soft sand for sole around the Welsh coast, and over the years I’ve refined a simple shore rig that presents a whole lugworm exactly how the flat fish like it — low, drifting naturally with the tide, and sitting just off the...
I remember the first evening I tried the 6in sabiki on an ultralight spinning reel: three quick rattles of the rod and the surface exploded with mackerel. What had previously been a slo-mo parade of single grabs and missed opportunities suddenly...